XHTML 1.0 Strict validation
Standardisation is wonderful, especially in communication. Oversimplified, it is like a dictionary that defines words and how they can be used, so a message is correctly formulated by the sender and correctly understood by the receivers. The Web works with the help of many standards, many developed by Word Wide Web (W3) Consortium. Unfortunately, in too many cases, both web site designers and web browser creators choose to ignore to a certain degree these standards. The results are immediate: the web site doesn’t look and work the same way on different browsers, operating systems, displays. That’s so annoying!!!
Being powered by WordPress, this blog is XHTML and CSS compliant. WordPress creators opted for XHTML 1.0 Transitional, which is more flexible and allows certain elementes to be accepted. But I’m not using any of those deprecated elements, not even targets for links so they open in new windows. Why not change to XHTML 1.0 Strict, then?
Only one file needed to be edited and voila, Random Synapses is now validated as XHTML 1.0 Strict. Which means, anyone using a web browser compliant to this standard, like Mozilla Firefox, will see the site exactly as I have designed it. Internet Explorer, on the other hand, might have problems correctly displaying certain elements (not necessarily on this site, but probably on others) because of its reduced standards compatibility.
